Ranting Andy Rooney Style - But Not As Good



Not meaning to sound like ‘chicken little’, but at the very least, SOMETHING is up with the sky. Regardless of whether it’s the affect from a 24 / 7 news cycle or overwhelming negativity in all media, there’s no doubt something is happening. No matter how I or YOU or people we know, love, and are acquainted with personally are doing, things on a whole are getting tough. Call it what you will; “just the ways things are”, the much predicted “end of times” or “last days”. Be it the 2012 issue (which current Mayan ancestors are repeatedly saying does not necessarily mean the end of the world) or the global/ domestic economies, new self destructive drug crazes (‘bath salts’), or the nearly everyday stories about child death and abuse, life as we know it is rapidly changing.



We’re now a world where there’s a huge outcry over humorous, smart-alecky t-shirts for kids reading “Too Beautiful for Homework” or “Allergic to Math” and these shirts are immediately removed from the store shelves.


For years we’ve been fed marketing and products high in “antioxidants” when there’s no real study or value as to the benefits of these ‘antioxidants’ to we humans; the only long term or real studies have been in rats and other animals. Look for a study; ANY study on antioxidants and their effect on humans.


The political machine seems destined to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Lies and flip flops, long staples of politics, are much more obvious and evident then they were in the past; yet are dismissed or looked over. Often, it’s a kind of ‘slight of hand’ that occurs. Regardless of which political jersey (Democrat/Republican, left/right, liberal/conservative) you wear.


The “prepare for disaster/survival gear” market has also exploded. More and more people are purchasing durable foods, equipment, weapons, storage lockers, etc from websites like preparewise.com, foodinsurance.com. I honestly don’t knock anyone who chooses to participate or prepare. If anything, these things will be handy in any type of temporary or long term emergency or inconvenience. Even I have some supplies stashed away for my wife, dogs and me in case we’re without power or water for a few days. The Travel Channel recently aired a program where for between $450k to $950k per person, you can be a part of a doomsday community where food, lodging, etc would be waiting for you in the event of cataclysm, 2012, whatever. I suppose I’d just have to perish when the robot warlords take over.


I can’t help but to feel like I’m being conned or scammed when I see and hear all these commercials beckoning me to buy or invest in gold or silver to ‘shore up my financial portfolio’. To me the pitchmen and/or women seem like car sales people to me. I feel like I’m being “set up”. Kind of like those commercials for online, do-it-yourself trading. Which I’ve done before back when I was first married. So the mystery and spell about them is a little less cloudy to me than these ‘gold n silver’ guys. Though investing in these and other precious metals isn’t a bad thing in my opinion. In the event of a survival doomsday, the ATM’s, water and power grids, any computer run anything will be rendered useless thanks to the EMP’s (electromagnetic pulse). Either EMP’s or whatever CERN creates or opens the door to. FTL my @$$!!! (Google CERN if ya don’t’ know what it is).


Personally, I have faith that while things can and probably will get worse before they get better, me and mine will do the best we can do and get by the best we can. I remember when I had to grow up a little earlier than others my age did and all the things I thought would be impossible to do or accomplish given my state of being at the time. I was then and am certainly now no one special. I didn’t have it no where NEAR as bad as many in the past, present, or future. I just have faith in myself and God. When the world ends and nothing’s left, that’s all we really have anyway whether you believe in a deity or not.


BTW- Michael Jackson is dead, Amanda Knox is at home, bath salts are THE SHIZZLE, now I can't buy lettuce again thanks to the latest recall- THANKS!I still want either a PS3 orXbox, and Kim Kardashian is kinda cute…. That’s CODE for the uninitiated…